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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DUTEE WILCOX, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

SLEEVE-FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 31,421, dated February 12, 1861.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DUTEE l/VILCOX, of the city and county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful or Improved Fastening for Tristbands or Various other Parts of Clothing in which it may be Advantageously Used; and I do hereby declare the said fastener to be fully described in the following specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l, is an edge View; Fig. 2, an underside view; Fig. 3, a longitudinal section, and Fig. e, an end view of it as it appears in a closed state. Fig. 5, is an edge view, and Fig. 6, an underside view of it as open or prepared for being introduced into either the Wristband or the collar of a shirt. Fig. 7, is a separate edge view of the slide hook and its spring catch.

In the said drawings, a, denotes the body or plate of the fastener it being constructed with a straight tubular socket, b, c, affixed to its rear side or bottoni asshown in the drawings. At or near the middle of the Said socket, there is a transverse opening or slot made through it. From one half or part, l), of the said socket, a hook, e, projects as represented in the figures. A slide, f, provided with a hook, g, is inserted lengthwise in the socket, l), c. This slide is furnished at its lower end with a spring catch, r, which when the slider is in position with respect to the parts a, c as exhibited in Figs. 5, and 6, will spring and catch into the notch or slot, CZ, and while therein will maintain the slider in such position. The hook is made with an inclined or beveled surface or angular end, as shown at z'. By pushing the slider, f, backward into its socket, this bevel, c', will so act against one edge of the slot di, as to depress or so move the hook as to cause it to enter the part, of the socket and permit the slider, f, to be moved farther into the socket.l The slider can be so moved until the catch or shoulder of the hook may pass beyond the rear end of the part, o, in which case, the two ends of the two hooks, e, and, g, will be closed to gether or nearly so and will be maintained in such position by the spring catch, It, which will have sprung over and caught on the end of the part, b. By depressing the spring catch and pulling on the hook, g, the slider, f, may be drawn forward or more or less out of its socket.

A notch, 7:, made in the part c, as shown in Fig. 6, serves as a stop to arrest the rearward movement -of the slider, f, at the proper period of time for the spring catch to lock the hook, g, in its nearest position with respect to the hook e.

In operating with this sleeve fastening, its hooks, e, and g, are to be respectively inserted in the holes of the Wristband, after which the slider, y", should be pressed back entirely into its socket. The fastening will then properly fasten a Wristband. T0 uniiX the slider We have only to passthe fore finger of one hand directly under the wristband and that part of the spring catch which may extend out of the rear end of the socket. Then, by pinching the Wristband the body of the sleeve fastening by the said fore linger and the thumb and so as to depress the spring catch While with the other hand the Wristband is pulled apart so as to draw on the slider, f, the latter may be moved or drawn forward far enough to enable the sleeve fastener to be detached from the Wristband or unhooked from the holes made in such Wristband and for the purpose of receiving the tWo hooks, e, and g.

After a little practice, a person will find it a very easy matter to operate this sleeve fastening', Whether in attaching it to a Wristband or detaching it therefrom. It will hold together the two parts of the wristband with suiicient firmness and as the fastener is made with hooks, e, g, the Wristband need only have round eyelets (in stead of button holes) for their reception.

The sleeve fastener constructed with a slider, f, its spring catch, It, and hook, g, (or its equivalent) arranged and applied to the body a, and the hook, c, (or its equivalent) substantially in manner and so as to operate as specified.

DUTEE wiLooX.

Vitnesses R. I-I. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr. 

